The hystorie of the moste noble knight Plasidas, and other rare pieces
Contributors: Weever, John, 1576-1632; Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703; Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1819-1907; Pepys Library; Roxburghe Club
Publisher: J.B. Nichols
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Other titles: Northern mothers blessing.; Way of thrift.; collected into one book by Samuel Pepys, and forming part of the Pep; Cysian library at Magdalene college, Cambridge.Printed for the Roxburghe club.; Most famous and worthie historie of the worthy lady of Pandauola.
Notes: Listed as no. 96 in the club's Catalogue of books, 1928.

Contains facsimile reproductions of the original title-pages.

Preface signed: Henry H. Gibbs.

The Appendix contains a reprint of the 1476 edition of Piccolomini's De duobus amantibus Eurialo et Lucrecia.
Table of contents: title: Preface. Appendix. The worthie hystorie of the moste noble and valliaunt knight Plasidas, by J. Partridge, 1566. The most famouse and worthie historie of the worthy lady Pandauola [by J. Partridge] 1566. The goodli history of the moste noble beautiful lady Lucres and of her louer Eurialus [by Aenas Sylvius Piccolomini] 1567. The northern mothers blessing. The way of thrift. 1597. The mirror of martyrs, or, The life and death of Sir John Old-Castle, knight, Lord Cobham [by J. Weever] 1601.